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Continuing Dependence. The very fact that Pompidou could make such a trip in relative cordiality and splendor was an indication of the enduring bond between France and its former colonies. Last month the British Commonwealth was plunged into a crisis because several former British African colonies bitterly opposed the Heath government's plan to resume arms sales to white-ruled South Africa. Yet the 14 countries of what was once French Africa scarcely seem perturbed by the fact that French sales of Mirage jets, submarines, helicopters, AMX-13 light tanks and other arms to South Africa will reach...
With typical bluntness and single-mindedness, Heath refused to budge from his determination to make the sale. At the same time, the Commonwealth's African members-particularly Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia-steadfastly maintained their total opposition to handing modern arms to South Africa's apartheid rulers. Unless one or the other undergoes a change of heart, the crunch may yet come...
Bellyful. If it does, it could bring a walkout of several Black African nations and possibly India and Canada as well. "If Heath goes through with the arms deal," said Uganda's Milton Obote, "he will be giving the Russians-and later the Chinese-an open invitation to go to Africa and replace the British and other Western powers...
...part, Heath seemed to have had a bellyful of criticism. After his marathon session with other P.M.s, the British Prime Minister is reported to have remarked acidly: "I got the impression some of them didn't know where the Indian Ocean...
...Heath is certain to hear a good deal more criticism. Back in Britain, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, whose Labor government banned arms sales to South Africa in 1964, seemed to be setting the stage for a major political contest on the issue. Speaking in Norwich, Wilson labeled his successor a "pathetic" politician who displayed "mulish stubbornness" and "personal prejudice" in Singapore and who proved that he was "not big enough to stand up to the bullyboys in his own party...